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D. Michelle Addington
Academic Center Affiliate, School of Architecture
addington@utexas.edu
Expertise: Sustainability; Smart Materials; Building Physics; Lighting; History of Building Technology; Leadership
Kamran S Aghaie
Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
kamranaghaie@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6400
Expertise: Islamic studies; Shi''''ism; modern Iranian history and modern Middle Eastern history; world history; historiography; religious studies; nationalism; gender studies and economic history
Ricardo C Ainslie
M. K. Hage Centennial Professor in Education, Counseling Psychology, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
rainslie@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0364, +1 512 471 4407
Expertise: Explores the intersection of psychology and culture through such topics as the psychological experience of immigration, ethnic conflicts and the impact of violence within communities, and the relationship between individual and collective identity. Is also interested in US-Mexico health, including addressing health disparities.
Kamran Ali
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
asdar@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3550, +1 512 471 4206, +1 512 471 7531
Expertise: Gender; health; development; labor history; political movements (including Islamic groups); Political Economy; post-colonialism; urban social histories, popular culture; historiography; memory; liberalism; Middle East; South Asia
Anthony M Alofsin
Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture
alofsin@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Modern architecture; history of architecture; history of art; Frank Lloyd Wright
CJ Alvarez
Associate Professor, Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies, College of Liberal Arts
cjalvarez@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: The history of the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S.-Mexico relations, and federal policing
Edward G Anderson
Professor, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Red McCombs School of Business
edward.anderson@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6394
Expertise: Edward Anderson is a professor of supply chain and operations management for The University of Texas at Austins McCombs School of Business. Within the schools Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, he has taught supply chain and operations management courses, project management, health care, and new venture design and implementation for the BBA, MBA, Ph.D., and Executive Education programs. Anderson has also served as director of the McCombs Healthcare Innovation Center, a research center specializing in innovation in healthcare delivery. Anderson worked as a product design engineer in the automotive industry and currently holds six patents. Numerous national media outlets have featured Anderson for his expertise in supply chain innovation, disruption, outsourcing, and industrial policy.
Lucy Atkinson
Associate Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
lucyatkinson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6665
Expertise: communication in the context of sustainability and the environment; focusing on the ways message components (like visual elements, argument frames, source factors) in environmental communication campaigns influence environmental attitudes; beliefs and behaviors; environmental communication; sustainability; advertising; immersive media (virtual reality and augmented reality); AI-generated messaging
Brett J Baker
Associate Professor, Department of Marine Science, College of Natural Sciences
brett_baker@utexas.edu
Expertise: He uses DNA sequencing technologies and computational analyses to discover marine microbes that can't be cultured in the lab and reconstruct their evolutionary histories. Keywords: metagenomics, transciptomics, proteomics, marine microbial communities.
Jay L Banner
Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
banner@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5016, +1 512 471 6854
Expertise: Isotopic methods, sustainability, groundwater, oceans, ancient oceans, climate change, aquifers, caves, environmental science, geochemistry, paleoclimatology, urbanization, environmental justice, <a href="https://www.esi.utexas.edu/community-engagement/cressle/" target="_blank">community-engaged research</a>
Janine Barchas
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
barchas@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8379
Expertise: 18th-century literature and culture; digital humanities; the British novel; book history; textual studies; Jane Austen; early fiction by women; Shakespeare reception
Kimberly A Beckwith
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
kbeckwith@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0995, +1 512 471 4890
Expertise: Teaches courses on sport history and strength and conditioning. Research focuses on physical culture history.
Mary Beltran
Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
mary.beltran@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0021, +1 608 320 9041
Expertise: U.S. Latina/o media studies; U.S. television and film history; mixed race and media culture; feminist media studies.
Charles E Berg
Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
charles.ramirezberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9925
Expertise: Latinos in US films; film history; narratology; Mexican cinema
Douglas G Biow
Professor, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
biow@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7267
Expertise: cultural, literary, art, medical, diplomatic, and intellectual history of Renaissance Italy; masculinities; the history of individualism
James S Black
Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture
sinclair@blackvernooy.com
Expertise: Urban design, new urbanism, development, Austin Downtown Alliance
Andree H Bober
Director, Landmarks Public Art Program, College of Fine Arts
abober@landmarksut.org
+1 512 415 7392, +1 512 495 4315
Expertise: art museums, museum administration, arts administration, museum directorship, museum studies, contemporary art, public art, art in public spaces, collections, collections management, UT special collections
Daniel A Bonevac
Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
bonevac@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4333, +1 512 471 4857
Expertise: Philosophy; Logic; Moral Issues; Ethics; Philosophy in Popular Culture; Christian Philosophy; Religion
Paola Bonifazio
Professor, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
pbonifazio@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1561
Expertise: Italian Cinema; Italian Media History; documentary film history and theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; feminist theories; media convergence and transmedia storytelling; popular culture
Pascale R Bos
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts
pascalebos@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6373
Expertise: 20th-century comparative Western European and U.S. literature; cultural studies, gender and memory; Holocaust; modern Dutch and modern Jewish literature and culture; ethnic minorities in Europe; cultural memory, trauma, race and gender, gender issues.
Oren Bracha
Professor, School of Law
obracha@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9325
Expertise: Intellectual property, cyberlaw, legal history and legal theory.
Henry W Brands
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
hwbrands@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3261
Expertise: U.S. history; American presidents; Franklin Roosevelt; Andrew Jackson; Woodrow Wilson; Benjamin Franklin; the Cold War.
Benjamin C Brower
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
benbrower@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6813
Expertise: colonial; Muslim pilgrimage; European imperialism; secularism and Islam; violence in history
Keffrelyn D Brown
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
keffrelyn@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4257
Expertise: Creates scholarship based around teacher education, especially relating to race and culture.
Anthony L Brown
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
alb@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3902
Expertise: Focuses on historical and contemporary issues and discourses concerning African American students in schools and society.
Matthew A Brown
Lecturer, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
matthewbrown@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5515
Expertise: Brown's primary research goal is to develop a more thorough understanding of how past and future treatments affect specimens as sources of data, and the impact these treatments have on the science of paleontology. This approach examines the interplay of historic and current practices in the field, laboratory, and collections, and how the scientific community interprets these results in the literature. He also studies how such events foster an evolution of best practices, policy, and law, and he advocates for fossils on public lands. Brown is an active member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, and is the founder of the Association for Materials and Methods in Paleontology.
Douglas S Bruster
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
bruster@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3635
Expertise: Shakespeare; drama; English Renaissance literature; film; theory
Erika M Bsumek
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
embsumek@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3261, +1 512 475 7253
Expertise: Native American History; Navajo arts and crafts; labeling of Indian made goods; history of the U.S. West and American Southwest; Modern Western urban/rural development including how large-scale engineering projects such dams, highways, and suburbs transformed the Western landscape/environment; transportation; urban management, environmental history, digital history, educational technology.
Water politics in the West, the history of Glen Canyon Dam, and Climate change.
Walter L Buenger
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
w-buenger@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: History of Texas, History of the Southwest, History and memory, Texas, the south, U.S.-Mexico border
Jorge Canizares
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
canizares-esguerra@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7694
Expertise: Early Modern Atlantic History; History of Science and Colonialism; History of Knowledge; Colonial Spanish and British America.
Charlotte Canning
Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
charlottecanning@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5793
Expertise: US theatre history, Broadway, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, historiography, feminist theatre, theatre and American society, historical entertainment industry.
Don E Carleton
Executive Director, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
d.carleton@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 495 4527
Expertise: U.S. History, Texas History, history of broadcast journalism,
Elizabeth J Catlos
Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
ejcatlos@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4762
Expertise: Please see https://catloslab.org/
Kate Catterall
Associate Professor, Department of Design
katecat@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0902
Expertise: History and theory of design; furniture and product design
Stephanie W Cawthon
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
stephanie.cawthon@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0378
Expertise: Investigates issues of access and equity for disabled people, with a special focus on systems change, research translation, and assessment.
Eddie Chambers
Professor, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
eddiechambers@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2474
Expertise: African Diaspora Art
Terrence L Chapman
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
t.chapman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7221
Expertise: International organizations, international conflict, international law, international political economy, formal modeling, peacekeeping,
Karma R Chavez
Department Chair, Mexican American and Latino/a Studies, College of Liberal Arts
karma.chavez@utexas.edu
Robert M Chesney
Dean, School of Law, School of Law
rchesney@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1120
Expertise: National security law and policy; terrorism (history, law, policy); law of war; federal criminal law relating to national security; intelligence and the law; constitutional law.
John R Clarke
Professor, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
j.clarke@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2355
Expertise: Ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture; classical archaeology; digital modeling; contemporary art and criticism; gender studies; art-historical methodology; cultural studies
Julia A Clarke
Professor and Jackson Chair in Geobiology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
julia_clarke@jsg.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Evolution of anatomical novelty, vertebrate paleontology, systematic biology, avian vocalization and the evolution of flight, fossil birds. Dinosaurs.
Danielle P Clealand
Associate Professor, Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies, College of Liberal Arts
danielle.clealand@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Afro-Latino politics and identity, Black politics in the Spanish speaking Caribbean and the United States, group consciousness, Black and Latino public opinion and racial inequality. Cuba. Puerto Rico.
Richard L Cleary
Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture
cleary@utexas.edu
Expertise: Architectural history; architecture
Ian W Dalziel
Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
ian@ig.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0431, +1 512 471 6156
Expertise: Tectonics, geodynamics, geography of ancient times, plate reconstructions, structural geology
Donald G Davis
Professor Emeritus, School of Information
Expertise: Texas American World Library History; History of Books Archives and Libraries; Collection Development in Libraries; Church History
Janet M Davis
Professor, Department of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
janetmdavis@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7277
Expertise: American popular culture; the circus; American foreign relations; animals; American social movements; transnational American Studies; history
Yoav Di-Capua
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
ydi@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7259
Expertise: Modern Arab Intellectual History
Justin Dyer
Dean, School of Civic Leadership, School of Civic Leadership
justin.dyer@austin.utexas.edu
Peter Eichhubl
Research Professor, Jackson School of Geosciences
peter.eichhubl@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8829
Expertise: Fault and fracture mechanics, reservoir geomechanics, diagenesis and low-temp. geochemistry, fluid flow and transfer processes in sedimentary basins, deformation mechanisms of the upper crust, structural control of mass and heat transfer in sedimentary basins, effects of chemical mass transfer on the mechanical and hydraulic behavior of fractures and faults, chemical interaction between fluids and minerals, induced seismicity/fault slip, subsurface hydrogen storage, geothermal systems
Mirasol Enriquez
Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
mirasol.enriquez@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: U.S.-based Latina filmmakers; media production culture; Chicana/o film; representations of race and gender in media
John D Fair
Adjunct Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
john.fair@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4890
Expertise: Focuses on the history of sport culture, particularly Olympic weightlifting, and its impact on society.
Sherry L Field
Advisor to the Dean for Faculty Development, Education - Office of the Dean
sherry_field@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8327
Expertise: Curriculum history; oral history; social studies curriculum and teaching; childrens thinking and historical thinking; teachers as school leaders; teacher preparation
Richard R Flores
Professor, Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies, College of Liberal Arts
flores@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Cultural theory; folklore and expressive culture; Mexican American history and culture; public history of the Alamo; critical race theory; cultural citizenship; cultural studies; higher education leadership
Douglas E Foley
Professor Emeritus, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
dfoley@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: American ethnic and race relations; educational policy for ethnic minorities; ethnographic research; critical theory
Marina Fontolan
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
marina.fontolan@utexas.edu
Expertise: Videogame localization, game studies, De- and postcolonial game studies, history of games and gaming, and science and technology studies
William E Forbath
Professor, School of Law
wforbath@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1326
Expertise: Constitutional law, legal history, social and economic rights in courts, social movements of Africa, Texas low-income housing
Alison K Frazier
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
akfrazier@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Humanist saints' lives; Quattrocento hexameral commentary; Bonino Mombrizio's c. 1477 "Sanctuarium"
Caroline Frick
Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
cfrick@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: film/media preservation; digital libraries; media history; moving image archiving; online streaming platforms
Kathryn Fuller
Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
kathy.fullerseeley@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: silent film history; radio history; US cultural history; 1960s history; comedy and humor
John M Gonzalez
Department Chair, English, College of Liberal Arts
jmgonzal@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8117
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Latino/a literature; Chicano/a literature; late nineteenth-century American literature; narrative theory; postcolonial studies.
Celestine Gonzalez De Bustamante
Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
celestegdb@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Historical and contemporary issues related to media in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Mexico, and other parts of Latin America
Jennifer Graber
Professor, Department of Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts
jgraber@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: American religions, religion in the American West, Native American religions, religion and violence; church history
Laurie B Green
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
lbgreen@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 736 1002
Expertise: Comparative Race Studies; African American Studies; Gender Studies; Working-Class History;
Migration; Urban History; Poverty and Public Health; Social Movements; Political and Cultural
History; Race Relations, Gender Issues
Julia Guernsey
Professor, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
j.guernsey@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5850
Expertise: Olmec and Maya art, architecture, and material culture; ancient Mesoamerican art, themes, iconography, and ritual associations.
Joshua Gunn
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
josh_gunn@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3933, +1 512 471 5251
Expertise: Ineffable communication; signs and symbols; Marxism; psychoanalysis; critical theory
Ian F Hancock
Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
xulaj@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Romani (Gypsy) language (origins, history, civil rights movement); creolization of language; English (dialects, history, spread overseas), language and identity
Mark A Helper
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Emerita, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
helper@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1009
Expertise: Dr. Helper is a field geologist, a generalist whose interests span igneous and metamorphic petrology, structural geology, tectonics, mineralogy and planetary field geology. His current research explores geochemical and isotopic similarities of Proterozoic and Archean crust in East Antarctica and the southwestern U.S., the Precambrian geology of Texas, the origin of epidote blueschists in the Klamath Mountains of northern California and the rheology and tectonic significance of melange and blueschist in the SW Chugach Mountains, Alaska. Senior honors theses under his supervision have examined the mineralogy of Texas topaz, hydration and textural patterns in Balmorhea blue agate, and the distribution and origin of joints in the Hueco Tanks syenite.
Working with NASA colleagues, he is also involved in analog planetary field research that examines the utility and efficacy of robotically gathering field data, both as a prelude to and follow-on to human geologic field work on the Moon and Mars. As co-chair of FEAT (Field Exploration and Analysis Team), he helped develop a new curriculum for the geological field training of astronauts and currently co-leads NASA's astronaut field geology training exercises. He also teaches field mapping techniques to NASA engineers and scientists who are developing capabilities for exploring the surface of asteroids, the Moon and Mars.
Dean Hendrickson
Curator, Ichthyology, College of Natural Sciences
deanhend@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9774
Expertise: Hendrickson focuses on the ecology and evolutionary history of fishes, primarily in the arid southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Megan L Hildebrandt
Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
megan.hildebrandt@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: contemporary art, foundations art pedagogy, drawing, artist mothers, arts-in-healthcare, community-based art practices
John M Hoberman
Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts
hoberman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6368
Expertise: European cultural and intellectual history with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race; Scandinavian studies; Norwegian language instruction; history of Jewish racial folklore; Olympics; Sports doping; race relations
Steven D Hoelscher
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts
hoelscher@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2567, +1 512 471 7277
Expertise: Photography; Cultural and Historical Geography; Urban Studies; Memory; Ethnicity and Race; North American and European urbanism; social constructions of space and place, landscape and region; cultural memory; and the geography of tourism.
Michael Holleran
Associate Professor, School of Architecture
holleran@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3792
Expertise: Historic preservation, urban development, history of water, canals and ditches
Brian K Horton
Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
horton@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1869
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Tectonics of sedimentary basins, evolution of orogenic systems, sediment provenance and routing systems, nonmarine depositional processes.
Thomas M Hunt
Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
tmhunt@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1540
Expertise: Examines the intersection of sport and international political history.
Bruce J Hunt
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
bjhunt@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6109
Coleman Hutchison
Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
coleman.hutchison@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8372
Expertise: U.S. literature and culture to 1900; poetry; print culture; the U.S. south; the American Civil War
Noah Isenberg
Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
noah.isenberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6680, +1 917 689 6453
Expertise: media studies; industry/history/criticism; identity and representation; classical Hollywood; independent cinema; Weimar cinema; Émigrés in Hollywood
Sharon Jarvis
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
sjarvis@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1961, +1 512 471 5251
Expertise: political persuasion, communication, research methods
Monica A Jimenez
Assistant Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts
majimenez@austin.utexas.edu
David Junker
Professor of Instruction, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
junker@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9466
Expertise: Public relations and strategic communications; Black Music and the media; race relations; and popular music.
William R Kelly
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
wkelly@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4142
Expertise: Criminal Justice/Criminology/Ecology of Crime, Program and Policy Research and Evaluation, Research Methodology and Statistics
David D Kornhaber
Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
david.kornhaber@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9715
Donna M Kornhaber
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
donna.kornhaber@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8392
Nancy B Kwallek
Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture
nkwallek@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Interior design, human behavior and design, history and theory of design, interior environments
J. Richard Kyle
Professor Emeritus, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
rkyle@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4351
Expertise: Ore deposits geology, mineral resources and society, geology and supply chains of critical materials, minerals exploration and evaluation, industrial mineral resources, origin of ore-forming fluids in sedimentary environments, fluid inclusions, stable isotopes, salt dome cap rock formation, surficial processes and earth resource formation, high resolution X-ray computed tomography applications to petrology, adaptive reuse of mining and processing sites.
Travis J Laduc
Curator, Herpetology, College of Natural Sciences
travieso@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6339
Expertise: Reptiles and amphibians, biodiversity, evolution, ecology
Stephen E Laubach
Research Professor, Jackson School of Geosciences
steve.laubach@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1534, +1 512 471 6303
Expertise: Structural diagenesis, structural geology, fracture analysis, fluid inclusion and cathodoluminescence studies, rock mechanics, mechanical and fracture stratigraphy, hydrocarbon exploration and development in deep and/or structurally complex areas, tight gas sandstone, coalbed methane, shale gas; geothermal, geologic aspects of hydraulic fracturing, application of borehole-imaging geophysical logs to stress and fracture evaluation, structural evolution of North American Cordillera, fracture history of NW Scotland, regional fracture studies Argentina.
Mark A Lawrence
Department Chair, History, College of Liberal Arts
malawrence@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9304
Expertise: U.S. Foreign Relations, the Vietnam War, International History, Decolonization
Edward G LeBrun
Research Scientist, Department of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Sciences
elebrun@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Invasive ant species; tawny crazy ants; fire ants; sustainable biocontrol of invasive ants;
Brian P Levack
Professor and John E. Green Regents Professorship in History; Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
levack@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: The history of the law and the interaction between law and politics, witchcraft
Anne Lewis
Professor of Practice, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
alewis615@utexas.edu
+1 512 656 0507
Expertise: Documentary filmmaking
Christopher A Long
Professor, School of Architecture
chrlong@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4084
Expertise: Modern Architecture; history and theory of central European architecture; history of Central Europe; cultural history; Arts & Humanities
Ayelet H Lushkov
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, College of Liberal Arts
ayelet.haimsonlushkov@austin.utexas.edu
Patricia Maclachlan
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
pmaclachlan@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1724
Expertise: Comparative Politics; Politics of Japan and East Asia
Madhavi Mallapragada
Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
madhavim@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9239
Expertise: Media; race and media; immigration; Asian Americans; digital culture; virtual identities; South Asian diaspora
Alberto A Martinez
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
almartinez@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: History of science and math, Einstein, historical myths in science, notions of race, political news media.
Monica M Martinez
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
monica.martinez1@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Monica Muñoz Martinez an associate professor in the department of history, in the College of Liberal Arts. She is an award-winning author, educator, and historian, specializing in the history of race, racial violence, policing on the US-Mexico border, Latinx history, women and gender studies, public humanities, digital humanities, and restorative justice. She is the author of "The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas" and a founding member of the non-profit organization Refusing to Forget.
racial violence, policing on the US-Mexico border, Latinx history, women and gender studies, public humanities, digital humanities, and restorative justice
Martha Menchaca
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
mmen@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Social anthropology, ethnicity, gender, oral history/oral traditions, legal anthropology, immigration, Chicano studies: US/Mexican culture, Latin America, and Mexico-Neoliberalism
Julia L Mickenberg
Professor, Department of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
mickenberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2650, +1 512 471 7277
Expertise: General U.S. cultural history (1865-present); History of the Left/Radical Cultures (especially in the United States); Children's Literature; U.S. Women's History (esp. 1865-present); History of Childhood; Americans and the Soviet Union
Juan Miro
Professor, School of Architecture
jmiro@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0182
Expertise: In his teaching, practice and research, Miro explores the role of the architectural profession in civic life, the relationship between the manmade and Nature, and the relevance of history for designers.
Miró was named a Distinguished Professor by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). He is also a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers of the University of Texas at Austin. Other teaching awards include the Texas Excellence in Teaching Award and the ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award.
Lisa L Moore
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
llmoore@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1837, +1 512 471 4991
Expertise: 18th century English and American literature; women's literature; LGBTQ literature; LGBTQ studies; poetry; feminist and queer theory; history of sexuality
Leonard N Moore
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
leonardmoore@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3212
Expertise: Modern African American History; black urban history; intersection of race, sport, athletic programs, and hip-hop
Sharon Mosher
Dean Emeritus, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
smosher@jsg.utexas.edu
Expertise: Structural petrology, field-oriented structural geology, the evolution of complexly deformed terranes, strain analysis, deformation mechanisms, the interaction between chemical and physical processes during deformation
Elizabeth Mueller
Professor, School of Architecture
ejmueller@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1151
Expertise: Architecture, urban planning, social equity, affordable housing, community development, urban politics and research design.
Stephennie Mulder
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
smulder@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5851
Expertise: Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology, cultural heritage in the Middle East/Southwest Asia.
Curran J Nault
Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
cnault@utexas.edu
Expertise: grassroots queer transmedia
Aaron O'Connell
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
aaron.oconnell@austin.utexas.edu
+1 202 235 3820
Expertise: 20th century military history, cultural history, U.S. foreign affairs, and American politics, Afghanistan, South Sudan, civil-military relations, national security policy, military culture
Guido Olivieri
Professor of Instruction, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
olivieri@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8015
Expertise: 18th-century music, performance practice, archival studies, history of pedagogy, music and powers in 18th-century Europe
Tolga Ozyurtcu
Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
tolga@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6018
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Studies the historical, philosophical, sociocultural, and political dimensions of sport and physical culture.
Jeffrey G Paine
Research Professor, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
jeff.paine@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1260, +1 512 471 1534
Expertise: Near-surface geophysics in hydrogeology and environmental and Quaternary geology; coastal geology; Quaternary geology and geomorphology; computer applications in the geological sciences
Katherina A Payne
Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
kapayne@utexas.edu
Expertise: Researches civic education, early childhood/elementary education, and teacher education to examine the role of relationships, community, and justice to make classrooms democratic and equitable spaces.
Alisa H Perren
Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
aperren@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1524
Expertise: business of Hollywood; TV and film production; distribution and exhibition; talent management/representation; streaming services; American comic book industry; history/contemporary indie film sector
David M Rabban
Professor and Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Law
drabban@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1308
Expertise: Higher education law, academic freedom, free speech, labor law, legal history, constitutional law
Mark G Raizen
Professor, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences
raizen@physics.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0883, +1 512 471 4753
Expertise: Atomic physics; laser cooling of atoms; trapping atoms; methods for enriching stable isotopes; desalination of water; energy efficient lighting; molecular motion; materials science; quantum optics; laser optics.
Dalpat S Rajpurohit
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
drajpurohit@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Hindi Language; Literary and Religious Cultures of Early Modern India; D?d? Panth and Poet-Saint Sundard?s (1596-1689); Modern Hindi Literature; Dalit autobiographies; devotional, monastic, and court cultures of early modern India
Susan W Rather
Professor, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
rather@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3390
Expertise: American Art, early American art, British Colonial American artists and artisans, portraiture, self-portraiture, Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, William Williams, Samuel F. D. Morse, Paul Manship, early 20th-century sculpture
Richard J Reddick
Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Undergraduate College, Undergraduate College
richard.reddick@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7551, +1 512 475 8587
Expertise: Examines the experiences of faculty of color at predominantly White institutions; mentoring relationships between faculty and Black students; and work-life balance in academia.
Penne L Restad
Distinguished Senior Lecturer Emerita, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
restad@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5236
Expertise: Late nineteenth and twentieth-century American cultural and social history, history of American holidays and family rituals, history of twentieth-century consumer culture, history and practice of pedagogy of American history, digital humanities relating to American history.
Donna L Rew
Professor, School of Nursing
ellerew@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7595, +1 512 471 7941
Expertise: Adolescent health, sexual health practices of homeless youth, sexual abuse and long-term sequelae, education for underserved populations, intuition in decision-making
Pedro Reyes
Department Chair, Educational Leadership and Policy, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
preyes@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8569
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: I study student success for children experiencing poverty. I analyze how school leadership and state policy facilitate student success across the education pipeline.
Enrique R Rodriguez
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
chanfle@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0786
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Introduction to Mesoamerica, Introduction to Archaeology, Aztecs and Spaniards, Ceramic Analysis, Anthropology and Technology, Mexican history, early Mexican cooking and culinary culture, history of technology
Timothy B Rowe
Academic Center Affiliate - Retired, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
rowe@utexas.edu
Expertise: Vertebrate paleontology, evolution and development of the vertebrate skeleton, phylogenetic systematics, the early history of mammals and their extinct relatives among Synapsida, the history of birds and their extinct relatives among Dinosauria, the history of other amniotes, high-resolution X-ray computed tomography, CT scanner, DigiMorph, informatics
Loriene Roy
Professor Emeritus, School of Information
loriene@ischool.utexas.edu
Expertise: Library development in Native American communities; creation of virtual museums of Native American artifacts; literacy efforts in Native American communities; library collection development and evaluation; oral tradition; organizing gatherings of indigenous librarians worldwide
David Ryfe
Director, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
david.ryfe@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: history and sociology of news; American political communication; public deliberation
Cinthia S Salinas
Ruben E. Hinojosa Regents Professor in Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
cssalinas@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3539
Expertise: Dr. Salinas is a member of the Social Studies Education program area and is an affiliate faculty member in the Bilingual/Bicultural and the Cultural Studies in Education program areas. Her focus in the social studies includes critical historical inquiry in elementary bilingual and secondary education late arrival immigrant ESL classroom settings, as well as broader understandings of citizenship. Her work also examines social studies teachers' enactment/countering of curriculum through narratives that include civic identities, agency, and membership of others.
Elizabeth Scala
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
scala@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8375
Expertise: Chaucer; the history of Chaucer studies; the textual environments of medieval literature; Medieval Literature; Medieval Romance; Bibliography and Textual Studies; Literary Theory; Women, Gender, and Literature; Food Writing; Taylor Swift
Nancy Schiesari
Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
nancy.schiesari@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6678
Expertise: production; narrative filmmaking; documentary filmmaking; cinematography; producing
Suzanne Scott
Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
suzanne.scott@utexas.edu
Expertise: fan culture (emphasis on fan/industry relations, gender and fan identities); digital and participatory cultures; transmedia storytelling and franchising; comic book culture; fan convention;
Adrien P Sebro
Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
asebro@utexas.edu
Expertise: media studies; identity & representation; industry/history/criticism
John M Sharp
Dave P. Carlton Centennial Professor Emeritus in Geology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
jmsharp@jsg.utexas.edu
Expertise: Hyrdogeology; flow in fractured rocks; thermohaline free convection; fracture skin effects; regional flow in carbonate rocks; hydrology of arid and semi-arid zones; subsidence and coastal land loss; effects of urbanization; alluvial aquifers; hydrogeology of sedimentary basins;hydrological processes in ore deposit formation; and hydrogeophysics.
Andrew Shea
Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
andrew.shea@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5303
Expertise: director; screenwriter; producer; documentary filmmaker
Richard Shiff
Professor, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
rshiff@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7547, +1 512 471 7757
Expertise: History of art, 19th and 20th centuries and contemporary, art theory, criticism
David S Sokolow
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, School of Law
dsokolow@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1379
Expertise: Contract law, corporate law, entertainment law, art law
Emily Sparvero
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
sparv@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2383
Expertise: Focuses on the development of sport policies and the ways in which professional sport teams can be leveraged to generate economic, social, and tourism benefits for host communities.
Denise A Spellberg
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
spellberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7202
Expertise: Medieval Islamic history, religion, and gender, Islamic historiography, and Islam in Europe and America.
James T Sprinkle
Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
echino@jsg.utexas.edu
Expertise: Invertebrate paleontology; evolutionary biology; fossil and living echinoderms; echinoderm systematics; Paleozoic marine communities and ecosystems; paleoecology; crinoids; blastoids; rhombiferans; eocrinoids; parablastoids; blastozoans; edrioasteroids; edrioblastoids; starfish; stylophorans; ctenocystoids; helicoplacoids; Cambrian evolutionary fauna; Paleozoic evolutionary fauna; Ordovician radiation; Cambrian explosion; environment & earth science
Janet Staiger
Professor Emeritus, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
jstaiger@utexas.edu
Expertise: Theoretician and historian of American film and television
Pauline T Strong
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
pstrong@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3555, +1 512 471 4206, +1 512 471 8524
Expertise: Cultural, historical, feminist anthropology; Identity and difference; Politics of representation; Public culture; Youth organizations; Museum studies; Public humanities; Medical humanities; US, Indigenous North America.
Jeremi Suri
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
suri@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7242
Expertise: Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs. He is a professor in the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Professor Suri is the author and editor of eleven books on politics and foreign policy, most recently Civil War By Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy. He's published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Atlantic, Newsweek, Time, Wired, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other media. Professor Suri hosts a weekly podcast, "This is Democracy." Suri's main research interests are the formation and spread of nation-states, modern international relations, the relationship between foreign policy and domestic politics, and the rise of knowledge institutions as global actors.
Mallary Tarpley
Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
mallary.tenore@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1990
Expertise: journalism; writing; eating disorders; nonprofit management; memoir; narrative nonfiction
Frederick W Taylor
Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences
fred@ig.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0453
Expertise: Tectonic geomorphology, stratigraphy, and paleogeodesy/paleoseismology at convergent plate margins
Paleoclimate, fossil corals as a proxy for past sea-surface temperatures. Corals as recorders of relative sea level for vertical tectonics and sea-level history.
Edward C Theriot
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Sciences
etheriot@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2379, +1 512 471 4997
Expertise: Algae; aquatic biology; paleontology; freshwater ecology; evolution; diatoms; Texas Natural Science Center
Shirley E Thompson
Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
s.thompson@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: African American and African Diaspora Studies; Nineteenth Century US Cultural History; Law and Literature; Slavery and Post-Emancipation Cultures; Cultural Memory
Janice (Jan) S Todd
Department Chair, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
j.todd@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0993, +1 512 471 0995
Expertise: Specializes in the history of strength and conditioning, doping, women and sport, and history of physical culture.
Alan Tully
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
tully@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Early American Political Culture; Early American history
Luis Urrieta
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
urrieta@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4129
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Follows trends around cultural and racial identities, agency, migration, and social movements in education.
Fred Valdez
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
fredv@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0060, +1 512 471 5946
Expertise: Archaeology, ceramic technology; Texas, Mesoamerica
Craig Watkins
Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
craig.watkins@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4071, +1 512 471 6676
Expertise: Race and pop culture; youth culture; digital media and social media; hip-hop culture and music; video games; the history of Black American cinema and the films of Spike Lee; digital media; young people and behaviors with social and online media.
Alexandra K Wettlaufer
Director, Plan II Honors Program, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
akw@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1442, +1 512 471 6461
Expertise: 19th-century literature, visual arts, culture, and gender studies in France and Britain
Kenneth W Wisian
Program Director, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
kenneth.wisian@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2003
Expertise: Geothermal Geophysics, SETI, Exoplanets, Space Exploration, Disaster Response, Recovery & Resiliency, Military Technology Applications, International Affairs, Innovation, Curriculum Development
Jacqueline D Woolley
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
woolley@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5196, +1 512 471 6261
Expertise: Conceptual development in preschool and elementary school children--the fantasy-reality distinction, evaluation of evidence, supernatural beliefs and reasoning, child development, developmental psychology, perceptions of reality and possibility, the role of testimony in childrens beliefs, and the development of scientific and supernatural reasoning.
Charters S Wynn
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
wynn@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7234
Expertise: Soviet politcal and labor history; Joseph Stalin